Title & Author:

The petropolis of tomorrow / [edited by] Neeraj Bhatia, Mary Casper.

Publication:

[Houston, Texas] : Actar Publishers & Architecture at Rice, [2013]
New York, NY : Actar D
©2013

Description:

569 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm.

Series:

AatR ; 47

Notes:
Explores the future of the interface between the petroleum industry and its infrastructure and ecology and human habitation.
Foreword by Felipe Correa.
Includes bibliographical references.
Foreword : Alternative post-oil cities / Felipe Correa -- Introduction : Floating frontiers / Neeraj Bhatia ; Distant frontier / Farès el-Dahdah & Alida C. Metcalf -- Observations : The true cost of oil / Garth Lenz --Positions : Archipelago urbanism : The Chagos Archipelago / Rafico Ruiz ; Archipelago, from metaphor to geography / Mason White ; The island organism : Hilberseimer in Rockford / Albert Pope ; On land, at sea: formalizing public edges in the archipelago / Mary Casper ; Islandness / Luis Callejas -- Project : Cidade do arquipélago / Alex Gregor, Joshua Herzstein, Libo Li, Laura Williams -- Observations : Oil rocks / Alex Webb -- Positions : Harvesting urbanism : The expansion of the extractive territory / Rania Ghosn ; Rigged ecologies / Geoff Manaugh ; Pesqueiro / Juliana Moura & Bárbara Loureiro ; Re-rigging: transborder logics across the bounded site / Maya Przybylski ; Harvesting urbanism through territorial logistics / Neeraj Bhatia -- Project : Cidade de Deriva / Joanna Luo, Weijia Song, Alex Yuen -- Observations : Petropolis / Peter Mettler -- Positions : Logistical urbanism : Index of landscape typology easement / Brian Davis ; On-demand urbanism / Clare Lyster ; City apps / Koen Olthuis ; Between water and oil : the logistical petroleumscape / Carola Hein -- Project : Cidade recorrente / Bomin Park, Peter Stone -- Appendix : L.O.G.: Living offshore guide -- Afterword / Sarah Whiting.
Includes images of the Alberta Tar Sands.

Summary:

"The Petropolis of Tomorrow is a design and research project, originally undertaken at Rice University that examines the relationship between resource extraction and urban development in order to extract new templates for sustainable urbanism. Organized into three sections: Archipelago Urbanism, Harvesting Urbanism, and Logistical Urbanism, which consist of theoretical, technical, and photo articles as well as design proposals, The Petropolis of Tomorrow elucidates not only a vision for water-based urbanism of the floating frontier city, it also speculates on new methodologies for integrating infrastructure, landscape, urbanism and architecture within the larger spheres of economics, politics, and culture that implicate these disciplines."-- Publisher's website.
"In recent years, Brazil has discovered vast quantities of petroleum deep within its territorial waters, inciting the construction of a series of cities along its coast and in the ocean. We could term these developments as Petropolises, or cities formed from resource extraction. The Petropolis of Tomorrow is a design and research project, originally undertaken at Rice University that examines the relationship between resource extraction and urban development in order to extract new templates for sustainable urbanism. Organized into three sections: Archipelago Urbanism, Harvesting Urbanism, and Logistical Urbanism, which consist of theoretical, technical, and photo articles as well as design proposals, The Petropolis of Tomorrow elucidates not only a vision for water-based urbanism of the floating frontier city, it also speculates on new methodologies for integrating infrastructure, landscape, urbanism and architecture within the larger spheres of economics, politics, and culture that implicate these disciplines."-- Amazon.com (viewed August 4, 2015).

ISBN:

9780989331784
0989331784

Subject:

Cities and towns.
Petroleum industry and trade.
Ecology.
Cities
Villes.
Pétrole Industrie et commerce.
cities.
Architecture and Planning.
Städtebau
Archipel
Offshorebauwerk
Erdölindustrie
Athabasca Tar Sands (Alta.) Pictorial works

Added entries:

Bhatia, Neeraj, 1980- editor.
Casper, Mary, editor.
Casper, Mary editor.
Correa, Felipe writer of supplementary textual content.
Architecture at Rice University ; 47.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 286999
Call No.: BIB 227599
Status: Available